Orwell, George - Life (7)

George Orwell

George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India in 1903, because his father was a minor colonial official. In his life Eric Blair lived in Eton, worked in Asia and served the Indian Imperial Police, but he hated it and came back to England with a sick leave, where he started writing. He had a very independent minded personality, he reputed himself against dogmas and institutions, he was atheist ad socialist. When he came back to England he changed his name into George Orwell, George because he liked the name and Orwell because of a place he liked. In 1936 he married Eileen O'Shaughnessy, they were both politically committed and they went to Catalonia in December 1936 to report the Spanish civil war. Orwell was against who hurt others, he fought for the poor and commons against fascism, indeed he was marxist. While he was fighting he got stabbed and wounded, therefore he came back to England, where he adopted a child, joined the BBC and became an editor. He then died in 1950.
He wrote books of different kinds: Down and out in Paris and London, which is a non fiction narrative, a sort of journal in which he puts himself in homeless's shoes and lived with them; Animal Farm, a fairy story and 1984 Nineteen Eighty Four. George Orwell rejected his English background, he had a conflict between his upper class education and his emotional identification with the working class. As to him, the role of the artist was to inform, to expose facts and draw conclusions from them.